From: hau...@ciao.cc.columbia.edu (Michael Hauben)
Subject: NYTimes reviews Autechre's Tri Repetae
Date: 1996/04/01
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Was reading through the Sunday New York Times and low and behold
there is a favorable review of the domestic release of Autehre's Tri 
Repetae!

As the NYT now has their daily text of the paper available on a
web site, I thought I'd be nice to them and just provide a URL,
but NO, NYT Web now requires registration. As this would probably
mean junk snail and/or e-mail and perhaps at a later date a fee,
I decided again this and decided to type in the review for
everyone's reading pleasure...(all typos are probably my own.)

[And note, the first line sounds stolen from someother review?
Was this review originally in the Village Voice?]

New York Times, Sunday, March 31, 1996. Arts and Entertainment section
Section H, page 32
_New Releases_

Autechre: 'Tri Repetae'
Warp/Wax Trax!/TVT

	The English duo Autechre makes electronic dance music so
serene and cerebal that it's best listened to at home instead of
a dance club. The band's third full-length album, "Tri Repetae,"
is a subtle masterpiece of technology-savvy minimalism, with
songs that lock into a gentle beat and repeat overlapping
sequences of electronic pitches, slides and throbs.

	What makes the album stand far above the steady stream of
ambient techno music pouring into record stores is Autechre's
affinity for sound arrangement and the smooth, sonorous timbres
it finds on its instruments. Almost any song on this 72-minutes
album, from "Eutow," which sounds like Brian Eno with a beat, to
"Leterel," which seems like the soundtrack to an
industrial-training film of the future, could be extended for the
entire length of "Tri Repetae" without sounding boring.

	"Tri Repetae" is packaged with a second CD, which
contains two EP's the band released overseas last year: the more
frentic, faster-paced "Anvil Vapre" and the more ambient,
mechanical-sounding "Garbage."
			Neil Strauss

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